Never understood the whining about making Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. Oh, the time! Oh, the effort and exhaustion.
Bake your pies and cornbread the day before.
Put the turkey in the oven at 7 am. Get the sides ready and go sit down. They giblet gravy pot is put on the back burner the heat from the oven comes off so doesn’t need to be turned on. Water, giblets and two washed eggs in the shell. Start the rolls dough.
At 10, take the foil off the turkey, get some stock out of it’s pan and mix up the dressing. Go sit down.
At 11, take the bird out of the oven and put the foil back on. Put the sides into the oven. Shape and let the rolls rise. Go sit down.
As the sides come out of the oven, put the rolls in to bake. Go sit down.
At noon, eat.
Friday and Saturday, finish off the leftovers.
Sunday, pick meat off bones and freeze. Boil carcass for broth and pick off another freezer bag of meat.
I actually prefer the dressing over the turkey.